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Birmingham, Alabama
Built in 1927 as a movie palace for Paramount, the Alabama Theatre is one of downtown Birmingham's grandest buildings. Stanleigh Malotte…
Livingston, Alabama
Captain William A. C. Jones built this 88-foot covered bridge in 1861, one of the oldest surviving in the South. It was moved twice and now…
Albertville, Alabama
Albertville Public Library carries a reputation among staff for a scattering of small, unexplained happenings. Workers say the elevator…
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Amelia Gayle Gorgas, widow of the Confederate ordnance chief and later university president Josiah Gorgas, became the University of…
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Dr. John R. Drish began this plantation house off Greensboro Avenue in 1837 and enlarged it into an Italianate mansion with a three-storey…
Florence, Alabama
Local tradition at Forks of Cypress says a tall, stately woman is seen in the Jackson family's walled burial ground, and visitors say that…
Gulf Shores, Alabama
Fort Morgan has guarded the mouth of Mobile Bay since 1834 and saw service in nearly every American conflict from the Civil War through the…
Gadsden, Alabama
Gadsden's library began with eight young women who formed a study club in 1897 and set out to give the city a reading room. After several…
Camden, Alabama
This house on Highway 10 outside Camden was built in the late 1820s or 1830s for the Reverend Ebenezer Hearn, remembered as the father of…
Homewood, Alabama
Before it was the Homewood Public Library, the building on Oxmoor Road was the Homewood Church of Christ. The city bought it in 1984 and…
Anniston, Alabama
John McKleroy, a partner in the Anniston Land Company, built this Queen Anne mansion in 1888 on the highest hill along Quintard Avenue.…
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
This Italianate mansion at 1305 Greensboro Avenue was built before the Civil War for Robert Jemison Jr. Victor Hugh Friedman later gave the…
Uriah, Alabama
The King-Criswell-Garrett Mansion near Uriah is said to be haunted by a grieving widow. Local history says the family living there lost…
Birmingham, Alabama
This building served as Birmingham's central public library from 1927 to 1985, and today it houses the library system's archives, special…
Albertville, Alabama
On April 24, 1908, during the Dixie tornado outbreak that struck much of the South, a violent tornado tore through Albertville. It killed…
Birmingham, Alabama
The Mortimer Jordan Residence at 2834 Highland Avenue was built between 1906 and 1908 in the Greek Revival style, with a double-height…
Moundville, Alabama
Built between roughly 1120 and 1650 CE on the Black Warrior River, Moundville was once the second-largest Mississippian city in North…
Mobile, Alabama
Cotton broker James W. Roper built Oakleigh in 1833, a raised Greek Revival house with its main floor a storey above the ground against…
Orrville, Alabama
Old Cahawba was Alabama's first state capital, from 1820 to 1826, built where the Cahaba River meets the Alabama. After the capital moved…
Carrollton, Alabama
The Pickens County Courthouse in Carrollton burned in 1876, and suspicion fell on Henry Wells, a formerly enslaved man. When officers came…
Birmingham, Alabama
The Redmont opened in downtown Birmingham in 1925. On December 30, 1952, Hank Williams and his young driver, turned away by another hotel,…
Mobile, Alabama
Riverboat captain Charles G. Richards, from Maine, and his wife Caroline built this Italianate brick house on North Joachim Street in 1860,…
Birmingham, Alabama
James Withers Sloss opened his Birmingham pig-iron furnace in 1882, and for nearly ninety years it ran around the clock, turning Alabama…
Selma, Alabama
Built in 1837 on the bank of the Alabama River, the St. James is said to be the only antebellum riverfront hotel still standing in the…